What story would someone submit about you?

[Cupcake Fiend]

Just a game I thought would be fun, especially with all the super-creative folks on this board!

Suppose you were reading e-hell and found a story posted about yourself (Horrors!)  How would it go?

Here's mine (though I'm sure others could do better)

I went to this couple's house last night to play D&D.  They ordered in Chinese food and pizza.  The hosting couple asked everyone else to chip in one dollar for the DM's meal.  First of all, I cannot believe they were eating and playing at the SAME TIME.  Unreal.  And then to have to pay for the DM's food?*  Ugh.  Someone brought a couple of bottles of wine, and they poured some for anyone who wanted it.  When they brought it out, I just couldn't believe my eyes...the glasses weren't matching, and they were the wrong kind of glasses for the wine they were serving.  What imbeciles.

To top it off, the hosting couple had two small children.  The kids were watching a movie in the living room while we played in the dining room.  The volume was down but I could tell they were watching The Polar Express.  A Christmas movie?  Hello!  It's February!  Then the little brats were running around singing the hot chocolate song from the movie.  Couldn't they control their own kids?  Other than that they just sat and watched the movie, and their mother put them to bed when it was over.  Imagine sticking your kids in front of a TV like that.

I will never go play games with this couple again.  Obviously they don't take anything seriously.

*It is a long-standing tradition in our group (and well-known and accepted) that the DM does enough, and deserves at least a free meal for his/her efforts in entertaining the rest of us.

[hobish]

We once invited this couple over for New Year's Eve. Actually, we didn't even invite them; but we were having an open house and they came with friends of ours, which was fine. What wasn't fine was that She got in a heated discussion with myself and one of our other guests about how evil SUV's are. Um ... we have TWO SUV's that she should have noticed, as they were both in our garage where she had been with all the other smokers. This was three years ago and i am still mad.


*yes, i did this, and no exaggeration it fills me with shame every time i think about it. And yes, i apologized profusely the next time i saw her (which has been once since then). I know that she is still mad because her husband plays D&D with my bf and he teased me about it last week. Another friend chimed in, "You really did that? She does still grouse (Not the Word he used) about it, but it sounded so unlike you i didn't believe it."
I apologized to the husband again last week; but i think it is one of those things that is going to haunt me for the rest of my days. My stomach feels all squirelly just thinking abbout it.

[Rei-chan]

OK, let me see if I can phrase this as this person would........

"When I got married last year, my MOH told me that as my something borrowed, I could wear her deceased Mother's heirloom pearls for the ceremony.  She asked that I return them to her after the ceremony, but before the reception, and I said OK.  Then, when the big day came, she had the NERVE to ask for them back after the guests had left for the reception!  I tried to ignore her, since it was MY DAY, I even walked away from her 5 times, but she INSISTED!  Then, she grabbed my hands when I tried to rip them off my neck for her!!  Some people!!  I mean, I know that I have a tendancy to get rip roaring drunk, and that there is the whole cake smashing thing, but I NEEDED THEM FOR THE PICTURES!!!"


***Yes, this is a true story     ***

[Just Lori]

Here's what a family member would write about me:

My SIL is terrible about acknowledging our kids' birthdays.  This summer, our son's birthday came and went and she didn't send a gift.  So I called her two weeks after his birthday and she said she hadn't been feeling well, but a gift was forthcoming.  Another week passed, and no gift.  So my husband called and left a message asking for the present.  She claimed she wasn't thinking about presents because she had just put her dog to sleep, but she has plenty of time to buy a present.   So my son called and put her on the spot, asking for his present.  She assured him one was on the way.  A few days later, he got his present - a gift card she had obviously ordered online and shipped to us.  She didn't even bother to go to the store or buy him a card or anything!  I wrote her a long e-mail telling her how hurt I was, and she had the nerve to write back and tell me that we'd better be OK with an online present, because that's how she shops!  I can't believe how selfish she is.  I told all of our mutual friends about her selfishness.

[keelhaulrose]

I think this is what I could probably have written about me:

"I was going to visit my sister one day soon after she moved into her new house. I had told her I wanted to come that day, so she knew that I was coming. I go to college about six hours away, and left early in the morning. The drive was uneventful, and since I thought she knew I was coming I didn't bother to call so early. I got to her house at about noon. I rang the doorbell. No answer. Rang again. No answer. Rang a third time, getting my cell out ready to call her, when her obviously just woken up husband answered the door in his pajamas. I explained what was going on. He looked at me funny, and said my sister had left early that morning on a day trip to Iowa to go retrieve some stuff from his mother's house that they had left there before they had bought a house. So now I'm six hours away from my college, with my sister goodness knows where, with her husband who works nights that I woke up trying to throw together a decent lunch for me. I was furious that she forgot!!! Just as I was about to leave to go back to college, after getting dozens of apologies and gas money from her husband, my sis pulls up in the driveway, saying that she was forced to turn back due to weather. She got the greatest face when she saw me standing there! At least she apologized."

[Pixie]

Two years ago, when my precious daughter, Princess, turned 7 I planned her birthday party for the weekend AFTER her birthday.  Then my husband told me he was helping someone fix their computer that day, so I changed the Princess's birthday party to the weekend BEFORE her birthday.    My best (only) friend in the world, had helped me organize the original birthday party, bought all the decorations, and even wrote out the invitations, which was kind of her as she has nerve damage and limited use of her right hand.  She really went out of her way to help me plan the original birthday party.

BUT... when we changed the date of  the party, my friend was out of town with HER children, taking a family vacation to celebrate  HER son's 12th birthday!   Can you believe she blew off the party for MY precious Princess in order to spend time with her own children and celebrate her son's birthday with that trip they had planned 6 months earlier?  What nerve!     How DARE she disrespect my Baby like that?

Can you believe she actually got angry when I pointed out, in front of her son, that it wasn't like he was even her real son, he's just adopted. She has no right to put her adopted children ahead of mine, my precious angels  are so much more special than hers!

[Alida]

Can you believe she actually got angry when I pointed out, in front of her son, that it wasn't like he was even her real son, he's just adopted. She has no right to put her adopted children ahead of mine, my precious angels  are so much more special than hers!

My jaw is on the floor!

[Pixie]

Can you believe she actually got angry when I pointed out, in front of her son, that it wasn't like he was even her real son, he's just adopted. She has no right to put her adopted children ahead of mine, my precious angels  are so much more special than hers!

My jaw is on the floor!

Hers almost hit my fist.   Good thing I'm a non-violent pixie.

[ginlyn32]

My SIL is soooooooo mean!

I called on Friday at 8:00 pm to ask her very nicely if she would babysit for me. Yeah, it was the last minute, but it's not like she has a "real" job! All she does is stay home and cook and clean and take care of her own child. Not like that is REAL work!

AND She said NO! WHAT?? Doesn't she know that I come first?? With my problems?? She even asked why it was her problem when I whined to her that I didn't have anyone else to babysit. I then tryed the old "guilt trip" and said I could get fired. Again she asked me why it was her problem that I could loose my job. I finally hung up when I realized that I could not manipulate her into babysitting.

So I Did the next best thing. I called my brother, her DH, and TOLD HIM! Told him to make her babysit. She actually had the NERVE to get on the phone and tell me NOT to call back and to stop expecting her to solve my problems.

** The above is a true story. My SIL had a horrible habit of calling me on Friday's at about 8 pm to ask me to babysit all weekend. "Oh I'll pay you." then I'd be guilted into not taking the money. I did it one time cause she said she could not find anyone else. I told her I would do it that once, but next time to ask me eariler in the week so she could plan. I told her not to expect that I would not be busy. Then the very next weekend, she calls me  and asks and I said NO WAY. I told her I was busy, had babysitted all week and didn't really feel like doing it all weekend too. She actually started whineing about how she was going to loose her job, so I said "how is this my problem?" Then she started crying. I was like sorry!

She then called my DH and told him that i wouldn't babysit. Dh asked me why and I told him I was sick and tired of her taking advantage of me. That she thinks just because I didn't have a job outside the home, then I should just be free to watch her kid whenever she needed me. ANd I put my foot down. He then said that he would stay home (cause he had overtime that weekend). I told him that if he EVER put his sister's family in front of ours, that I would leave and take my child with me (I only had one child at the time, I was pregnant for the second) and never come back. So he called her back and said no deal.

Ginger

[Lunadiana75]

I have this friend, "Moona", and honestly she is a sweetheart, would give you the shirt off her back (especially after a few shots of tequila). But she has got to be one of the spaciest people I have ever met.  For one thing, she is NEVER on time!  She is always 10 to 15 minutes late, if you want there on time, tell her to come early.  Even then it's a crapshoot.  She also tends to "space out" while you're talking to her and she'll ask you to repeat things. Really, anything pretty and shiny will catch her attention and she'll be off in her own little world.  Finally, she talks 100 miles an hour!  Ugh! Sometimes you can barely get a word in edgewise, and don't start me on the interrupting!*  But she's so sweet and adorbale, and always so apologetic, I just have to forgive her. Good thing she's a fabulous cook!

*Yes, I am working very very hard on that very very bad habit. 

[AmethystAnne]

This is what my MIL would tell about me:

"When my son's middle daughter got married in 2003, there was a rehersal dinner the evening before the wedding. I found out about it after the wedding took place. It must have been Laura's fault that we were not invited. Her parents and sister and family got invited! I got to thinking about it not that long ago, and it made me just as mad now as it did then. So I told my son to tell Laura that I'm still mad about not being invited to the dinner."
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It's true that my DH's parents weren't invited.

It's also true that my parents and sister and her family got invited.

MIL doesn't realize that DH and I were not hosting/paying for/responsible for this rehersal dinner. (the groom's parents were the hosts)

My parents and my sister and her family would not have been invited if they lived locally. (They drove 700 plus miles from New Jersey to southcentral Kentucky for DD's and her fiancee's wedding)

I will not respond because I don't want DD and her DH (and his parents) to be fussed at or to have ill will thrust upon them. Which could happen if I simply said, "It wasn't my party."

 

[IndianInlaw]

You know that girl who used to live with my son the cop?  She was at a barbecue and she kept mentioning how ugly my youngest son's girlfriend is.

It's not like she's any can of peaches, herself.

[dvydiva]

OK, Ginlyn you are my new hero...way to not be a doormat, girlfriend!

[ginlyn32]

OK, Ginlyn you are my new hero...way to not be a doormat, girlfriend!

Yeah...well, it only took one time for her to try to manipulate my DH, her older brother. I told him in no uncertain terms that her problems were of her OWN making and she needed to learn to live with the consequences. She had a habit of screwing up her life and then expecting her mom and the rest of the family to clean it up. Nice.

Ginger

[kingsrings]

This is what a now-former friend would write about me:

"Last New Year's Eve, I didn't have any plans, so my good friend graciously invited me to come along to a party that she was invited to. We were all going to meet at a restaurant for dinner, and then go on to one of the friend's houses for the party. A couple of days before, I found out that my brother didn't have any plans, so I graciously invited him along to come to the party that we were going to. So we get to the restaurant and are all seated, when my brother calls up asking where the restaurant is as he is ready to meet us there. I tell him, then my friend, who has overheard my conversation starts talking about why didn't I tell her or anyone else that I had invited my brother, because they had gotten a table for only a set amount of people, so there wasn't any room for him. Excuse me?? This is my brother, for crying out loud! How dare she talk about him like that and say that there is no room for him! I explained to her that he was coming, no matter what, and that the two of us would leave the table and sit somewhere else where there was room for us if it came to that. I also explained to her how insensitive she was being about the situation, I mean this is my brother we are talking about! She started repeating again what she just said, and I had had it at that point with the insulting, insensitive behavior my friend was exhibiting. I got up from the table and stormed out of the restaurant. My friend tried to stop me and talk about it and make amends, but no, I had had it with her controlling behavior and couldn't take anymore of it. I had had it with her getting upset with me when we would make plans and I wouldn't arrive at the specified time-who does she think she is, my boss? And this woman rarely ever dates, and gets annoyed when I talk too much about the men in my life, I mean, what else is there to talk about?"